DC to host final. seriously?

Posted by yamsmos on July 16, 2009 · Under DC United, US Open Cup · View Comments 

assuming DC gets through rochester in the semi final of the USOC Stephon Goff from the Washington post is reporting that they (DC) won the right to host the USOC final

we can almost guarantee 2o,000+ people to that game. how could we have bid so low to not win it.

even stephen goff  in the article himself can’t quite believe it.

I do not know the details of the bids or how much money the teams promised the USSF, but I am a bit surprised that, if both Seattle and DCU win, the game will be played at RFK. Last year’s final in Washington drew 8,212. Seattle’s first bid for a trophy would draw at least double that amount, right?

  • avg joe

    WTF!

  • soundersfcfanboy

    Seriously, W T F?

  • Steve

    how can they guarantee 2.5 times last year’s final???  Bull

  • yamsmos

    steve, are you talking about my 20,000 number?…. you are right, i don’t have stats to say i can gaurantee…. so let me retract, i can’t guarantee, but i would bet money on it.

    why?

    well we sold out a stadium for the semi’s in tukwilla for 5,000 a week and a half early…. so i put those tickets in the bank.

    and then we move it to seattle, so i think that adds another 5-7k.

    and then it is the final so i think that gets us to 20.

    given our fan base of at least 32k going to each game now, and the fact we can obviously sell out 65k+ for big matches, and the fact that it is a final, and the fact that there are a lot of people that haven’t had the chance to go to a game on a realtively cheap ticket….

    yeah i would put money down on 20k.

    UPDATE…. just saw all the scheduling conflicts which helps put a lot of this in perspective. wish we could host the game… and heck, maybe we still will. but my knee was jerky and it makes more and more sense now.

    oh well. i guess we were used to being spoiled and i am just a spoiled brat now

  • Steve

    I read that wrong.  I can see us doing that, but not at a 1:00 tuesday game. 

  • Gee

    1pm start time?????

  • jt

    Man..  Well, think of how it would look if Qwest had more people in it than Safeco!  If we’re playing the semi-final on the 21st of July, you’d think that we could swing a Wednesday night game much like Barca for the US Open Cup Final.  :(   Away trip to DC anyone????  Adrian – we need the jet – make that a couple of jets!!!  Drew – Come on man, first bit of silverware!!!

    Brian Ching got fined for a twitter post on the match last weekend!

    http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1103282

  • Ben R

    Ching deserved the fine.  Do we know if the KC coach got anything for his Montero comments?

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